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Nathan P. Devir publishes New Children of Israel
Nathan P. Devir has just published New Children of Israel: Emerging Jewish Communities in an Era of Globalization (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2017).
German (Pre-) Halloween Film Night!
M – Eine stadt sucht einen mörder (M - A City Looks for a Murderer)
Karin Baumgartner Wins ACTFLs Nelson Brooks Award
Karin Baumgartner has won the Nelson Brooks Award conferred by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in honor of her expertise in German language and culture pedagogy.
Molly Barnewitz, MA, Wins Thesis Award
Molly Barnewitz’s MA thesis has been nominated to represent the University of Utah in the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS)/ProQuest Distinguished Thesis Non-STEM competition.
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Voices from Empire
Empire and the Lusotropicalist Myth in the literature of Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique, Angola, Macao, and Goa.
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Gus Gochnour
"It has been a blast interning in Germany’s capital for the last 4 months. Learning about the German culture, and language in the class room is one thing, but being able to live and breathe German every day is a special experience."
Faculty Publications
Nathan Devir
New Children of Israel: Emerging Jewish Communities in an Era of Globalization. This comparative ethnographic study presents in-depth analyses of the backgrounds, motivations, and sociohistorical contexts of emerging Jewish communities in Cameroon, Ghana, India, and other postcolonial locales.
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Lee Wohlgemuth
German BA 1970, MA 1973
Jonah Katz
Asian Studies and Chinese
Ted Buckwalter
MA in French Literature, 1995
Annie Omer
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